Portrait Of Elmbury

Collins, 1948. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1948. Fourth Impression. 224 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some… Read more about this item

Collins, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1957. No Edition Remarks. 224 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Pen markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping… Read more about this item

Collins,, 1945-46-48. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, second volume with frontispiece by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper of first and third volumes; cloth (brown/brown/terracotta respectively), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers chafed (just affecting lettering) at head and tails of backstrips The set comprises 'Portrait of… Read more about this item

Collins,, [1966-1971]. 3 vols., 8vo., original red tweed cloth, backstrips blocked in black and lettered in silver, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly browned at backstrips. Dustwrapper artwork by Michael Harvey. The set comprises 'Portrait of Elmbury' (1966), 'Brensham Village' (1966) and 'The Blue Field' (1971). Bright, crisp set of one of the most elegaic… Read more about this item

Collins, 1945. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1945. No Edition Remarks. 224 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with yellow lettering. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages are loose. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Stains and markings to some pages. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and… Read more about this item

Pan Books Ltd, 1953. Paperback. Acceptable. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 220 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to hinges with covers slightly coming away from text-block. Light thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has mild edge wear with scuffing to edges and creasing. Small splits to joints. Book has rolled spine.… Read more about this item

Collins, 1945. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a chipped dust jacket which has some strengthening to the verso, 224pp.

British: Pan 230, 1953. Solid copy with a slight spine roll, some foxing on back cover, "35" in pencil on top left corner of back cover, and covers show light wear.. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good -.

Collins, 1966. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1966. Reprint. 224 pages. Red & white jacket over cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and… Read more about this item

Collins, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1950. Fifth Impression. 224 pages. Yellow dust jacket with black lettering over brown cloth. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and soiling to boards. Minor sunning to spine head. Unclipped dust… Read more about this item

Collins, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1957. No edition remarks. 224 pages. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over brown cloth. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Mild sunning to… Read more about this item

Pan. Paperback. 221pp. First edition Pan paperback. A thinly disguised portrait of Tewksbury in Gloucestershire from 1913-1933. Cover illustration by Carl Wilton. Rubbed and slightly creased. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1953.

London: Collins, 1950. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. A scarce first edtion, fifth impression of John Moore's 'Portrait of Elmbury'. Part of a best selling trilogy, along with 'Brensham Village' and 'The Blue Field', this volume cemented Moore's immediate post-Second World War reputation as a one of the leading authors concerning themselves with the… Read more about this item

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Very Good.

Portway, Bath: Cedric Chivers. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Large Print Edition. Hardcover. 0-85997-409-x . Book is in very good condition with very good jacket. Large type book. Jacket is in mylar and is bumped. Cover is lightly shelfworn. All normal library marks. Pages appear clean and tight. More detailed description and / or… Read more about this item

London: Readers Union/Collins. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and faded. 1946. Reprint. Red hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 224pp. .

Slightly Foxed, London, 2014. Limited edition: 958/ 2000.. Hardback.. Very Good (-), without dust jacket. No owner's markings. Water stain/ damage to front cover but very subtle.

London: Readers Union, 1946. Pp. 224; post 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in yellow, a couple of tiny bruises to edges of boards; dust wrapper, edges chipped and split, the backstrip faintly faded and soiled; bookplate of Benjamin Tindale on upper pastedown, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Readers Union, London, 1946. Book Club edition. *Originally published by Collins in… Read more about this item

Collins, London, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. 5th Impression. 224 pages. Pictorial dust jacket covered in plastic wrapper over brown cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine… Read more about this item